Hannan is listed as a Director of Project Maja from July to August 2015 in Companies House records. The company's registered address was listed as 55 Tufton Street, the home of many of the UK's key climate science denial organisations. Project Maja was dissolved in December 2016 without ever filing accounts or officially declaring its Nature of Business.

Stance of climate change

“Let’s accept what seems to be the consensus that the world is warming partly as a result of human activity. How we then deal with that is a political rather than a scientific question. And the particular issue is how much we spend on seeking very slightly to mitigate the rise in temperatures with huge sums of money versus adapting with a fractional sum of money.

“I look around the world and I see that in Helsinki the mean temperature is about five degrees, in Athens it is about 21 degrees, in Rio it’s about 35 degrees – all support large populations. I think we might just be able to adapt.”

Key Quotes

“There are some crybabies on both sides of the Atlantic who don’t accept the verdict of the people as final … it’s the slightly spoiled millennials, the generation of the safe spaces and micro-aggressions … it was entirely in their minds about ‘am I a nice cosmopolitan, outwards-looking person, or am I an evil bigot?’”

Hannan spoke at an event for the anti-regulation US thinktank, the Heritage Foundation. Speaking at the think tank’s offices in Washington D.C., about a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal Hannan told the audience: “If it’s good enough on your side of the Atlantic it’s good enough on ours”, adding that “in reality of course the deal is unlikely to be done just by Heritage and me”, drawing laughter from the crowd.

He said: “Our state machines will get their hands into it and they of course will try to make it about everything except trade. They’ll make it about ecological standards, and women’s rights, and child labour, and everything except the free exchange of goods and services, and that’s what opens the door to the corporate capture.”

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